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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2006, held in Itatiaia, Brazil, in May 2006. The 20 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on automatic summarization, resources, translation, named entity recognition, tools and frameworks, systems and models, information extraction, speech processing, lexicon, morpho-syntactic studies, and Web, corpus and evaluation.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2003, held in Faro, Portugal in June 2003. The 24 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech analysis and recognition; speech synthesis; pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; tools, resources, and applications; dialogue systems; summarization and information extraction; and evaluation.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2008, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2008. The 21 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech analysis; ontologies, semantics and anaphora resolution; speech synthesis; machine learning applied to natural language processing; speech recognition and applications; natural language processing tools and applications; and posters.
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• Speech processing
• Resources and evaluation
• Natural language processing applications
• Semantics
• Natural language processing tasks
• Multilinguality.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2020, held in Evora, Portugal, in March 2020. The 36 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They are grouped in topical sections on speech processing; resources and evaluation; natural language processing applications; semantics; natural language processing tasks; and multilinguality.

• Corpus Linguistics.- Information Extraction.- Natural Language Processing Applications.- Language Resources.- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining.- Speech Processing.- Syntax and Parsing.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2018, held in Canela, RS, Brazil, in September 2018. The 42 full papers, 3 short papers and 4 other papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Corpus Linguistics, Information Extraction, LanguageApplications, Language Resources, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Speech Processing, and Syntax and Parsing.
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• Resources and Evaluation.- UlyssesNER-Br: a corpus of Brazilian legislative documents for named entity recognition.- A test-suite for the evaluation of Portuguese-English machine translations.- MINT - Mainstream and Independent News Text corpus.- Fakepedia Corpus: a flexible fake news corpus in Portuguese.- A targeted assessment of the syntactic abilities of Transformer models for Galician-Portuguese.- FakeRecogna: A new Brazilian corpus for fake news detection.- Implicit opinion aspect clues in Portuguese texts: analysis and categorization
• CRPC-DB A discourse bank for Portuguese.- Challenges in annotating a treebank of clinical narratives in Brazilian Portuguese.- PetroBERT: a domain adaptation language model for oil and gas applications in Portuguese.- SS-PT: A stance and sentiment data set from Portuguese quoted tweets.- Natural Language Processing Tasks.- ZeroBERTo - leveraging zero-shot text classification by topic modeling.- Banking regulation classification in Portuguese.- Automatic information extraction: a distant reading of the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary.- Automatic recognition of units of measurement in product descriptions from tax invoices using neural networks.- Entity extraction from Portuguese legal documents using distant supervision.- Sexist hate speech: identifying potential online verbal violence instances.- Book genre classification based on reviews of Portuguese-language Literature.- Combining word embeddings for Portuguese named entity recognition.- BERT for sentiment analysis: pre-trained and fine-tuned alternatives.- Fostering judiciary applications with new fine-tuned models for Legal Named Entity recognition in Portuguese.- Natural Language Processing Applications.- Using topic modeling in classification of Brazilian lawsuits.- PortNOIE: A neural framework for Open Information Extraction for the Portuguese language.- Tracking environmental policy changes in the Brazilian Federal Official Gazette.- A transfer learning analysis of political leaning classification in cross-domain content.- Integrating question answering and text-to-SQL in Portuguese.- Named Entity Extractors for new domains by Transfer Learning with automatically annotated data.- PTT5-Paraphraser: Diversity and meaning fidelity in automatic Portuguese paraphrasing.- Speech Processing and Applications.- A protocol for comparing gesture and prosodic boundaries in multimodal corpora.- Forced phonetic alignment in Brazilian Portuguese using time-delay neural networks.- Brazilian Portuguese speech recognition using Wav2Vec 2.0.- A corpus of neutral voice speech in Brazilian Portuguese.- Comparing lexical and usage frequencies of palatal segments in Portuguese.- Lexical Semantics.- Extracting valences from a dependency treebank for populating the verb lexicon of a Portuguese HPSG grammar.- CQL grammars for lexical and semantic information extraction for Portuguese and Italian.- Drilling Lexico-Semantic Knowledge in Portuguese from BERT.- Short Papers.- The systematic construction of multiple types of corpora through the Lapelinc Framework.- Revisiting CCNET for quality measurements in Galician.- Identifying literary characters in Portuguese: Challenges of an international shared task.- Should I buy or should I pass: e-commerce datasets in Portuguese.- Best MsC/MA & PhD Dissertation.- Abstract meaning representation parsing for the Brazilian Portuguese language.- Enriching Portuguese word embeddings with visual information.-.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2021, held in Fortaleza, Brazil, in March 2021. The 36 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. They are grouped in topical sections on speech processing; resources and evaluation; natural language processing applications; semantics; natural language processing tasks; and multilinguality.
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• Verb Analysis in a Highly Inflective Language with an MFF Algorithm / António Branco and Filipe Nunes
• Automatic Analysis of Portuguese Verb Morphology / Solving Ambiguities Caused by Thematic Vowel Allomorphs / Vera Vasilévski, Leonor Scliar-Cabral and Márcio José Araújo
• Coordination of -mente Ending Adverbs in Portuguese: An Integrated Solution / Jorge Baptista, Lucas Nunes Vieira, Cláudio Diniz and Nuno Mamede
• Morphosyntactic Analysis of Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder / Raquel Reis and António Teixeira
• Lince, an End User Tool for the Implementation of the Spelling Reform of Portuguese / José Pedro Ferreira, António Lourinho and Margarita Correia
• Searching a Mixed Corpus in the Light of the New Portuguese Orthographic Norm / Gracinda Carvalho, Isabel Falé, David Martins de Matos and Vitor Rocio
• Extraction of Bilingual Cognates from Wikipedia / Pablo Gamallo and Marcos Garcia
• Corpus-Based Acquisition of Support Verb Constructions for Portuguese / Britta D. Zeller and Sebastian Padó
• Improving Portuguese Term Extraction / Lucelene Lopes and Renata Vieira
• A Method for Automatically Extracting Domain Semantic Networks from Wikipedia / Clarissa Castellã Xavier and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
• Extracting Temporal Information from Portuguese Texts / Francisco Costa and António Branco
• It Is the Time for Portuguese Texts! / Olga Craveiro, Joaquim Macedo and Henrique Madeira
• A Large Portuguese Corpus On-Line: Cleaning and Preprocessing / Michel Généreux, Iris Hendrickx and Amália Mendes
• Dicionário-Aberto: A Source of Resources for the Portuguese Language Processing / Alberto Sim{tilde}oes, Álvaro Iriarte Sanromán and José Joáo Almeida
• Towards a Common Sense Base in Portuguese for the Linked Open Data Cloud / Vládia Pinheiro, Vasco Furtado, Tarcisio Pequeno and Caio Ferreira.

• Weak Object Pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese: An LFG Analysis / Ana R. Luís
• Entropy-Guided Feature Generation for Structured Learning of Portuguese Dependency Parsing / Eraldo R. Fernandes and Ruy L. Milidiú
• Bayesian Induction of Syntactic Language Models for Brazilian Portuguese / Daniel Emilio Beck and Helena de Medeiros Caseli
• Automatic Generation of Cloze Question Stems / Rui Correia, Jorge Baptista, Maxine Eskenazi and Nuno Mamede
• Toponym Disambiguation Using Ontology-Based Semantic Similarity / David S. Batista, João D. Ferreira, Francisco M. Couto and Mário J. Silva
• Automatic Hyponymy Identification from Brazilian Portuguese Texts / Leonardo Sameshima Taba and Helena de Medeiros Caseli
• Semantic Role Labeling for Portuguese -- A Preliminary Approach -- / João Sequeira, Teresa Gonçalves and Paulo Quaresma
• An Architecture for Semantic Role Labeling on Portuguese / Erick Rocha Fonseca and João Luís G. Rosa
• Towards Semi-supervised Brazilian Portuguese Semantic Role Labeling: Building a Benchmark / Fernando Emilio Alva-Manchego and João Luís G. Rosa
• Building a Sentiment Lexicon for Social Judgement Mining / Mário J. Silva, Paula Carvalho and Luís Sarmento
• A Bootstrapping Algorithm for Learning the Polarity of Words / António Paulo Santos, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Carlos Ramos and Nuno C. Marques
• The Role of Language Registers in Polarity Propagation / António Paulo Santos, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Carlos Ramos and Nuno C. Marques
• Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data for Portuguese Language / Marlo Souza and Renata Vieira
• REAP. PT Serious Games for Learning Portuguese / André Silva, Cristiano Marques, Jorge Baptista, Alfredo Ferreira and Nuno Mamede
• Graph-Based Methods for Multi-document Summarization: Exploring Relationship Maps, Complex Networks and Discourse Information / Rafael Ribaldo, Ademar Takeo Akabane, Lucia Helena Machado Rino and Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo.

• Clustering and Categorization of Brazilian Portuguese Legal Documents / Luis Otávio de Colla Furquim and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
• SIGA, a System to Manage Information Retrieval Evaluations / Luis Costa, Cristina Mota and Diana Santos
• E-commerce Market Analysis from a Graph-Based Product Classifier / Andréa Britto Mattos, Marcelo Van Kampen, Camila Carriço, André Ricardo Dias and Alexandre Crivellaro
• A Description Logic for InferenceNet. Br / Wellington Franco, Thiago Alves, Henrique Viana and João Alcântara
• Real-Time MRI for Portuguese / Database, Methods and Applications / António Teixeira, Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, Carlos Ferreira and Augusto Silva, et al.
• Production and Modeling of the European Portuguese Palatal Lateral / António Teixeira, Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira and Augusto Silva
• A New Methodology for Comparing Speech Rhythm Structure between Utterances: Beyond Typological Approaches / Plínio A. Barbosa and Wellington da Silva
• Constructing Physically Realistic VCV Stimuli for the Perception of Stop Voicing in European Portuguese / Daniel Pape, Luis M.T. Jesus and Pascal Perrier
• Automatic Phonetic Transcription by Phonological Derivation / Marcos Garcia and Isaac J. González
• The C-ORAL-BRASIL I: Reference Corpus for Informal Spoken Brazilian Portuguese / Tommaso Raso and Heliana Mello
• A European Portuguese Children Speech Database for Computer Aided Speech Therapy / Carla Lopes, Arlindo Veiga and Fernando Perdigão
• Baseline Acoustic Models for Brazilian Portuguese Using CMU Sphinx Tools / Rafael Oliveira, Pedro Batista, Nelson Neto and Aldebaro Klautau
• A Fishervoice-SVM Language Identification System / Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docio-Fernandez and Carmen Garcia-Mateo
• Summarizing Speech by Contextual Reinforcement of Important Passages / Ricardo Ribeiro and David Martins de Matos
• Incorporating ASR Information in Spoken Dialog System Confidence Score / José Lopes, Maxine Eskenazi and Isabel Trancoso
• Transcription of Multi-variety Portuguese Media Contents / Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso and João Neto
• Towards Automatic Classification of Speech Styles / Arlindo Veiga, Sara Candeias, Dirce Celorico, Jorge Proença and Fernando Perdigão.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2012, held in Coimbra, Portugal in April 2012. The 24 revised full papers and 23 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. These papers cover the areas related to phonology, morphology and POS-Tagging, acquisition, language resources, linguistic description, syntax and parsing, semantics, opinion analysis, natural language processing applications, speech production and phonetics, speech resources, speech processing and applications.

• Extending VITHEA in Order to Improve Children's Linguistic Skills
• Automatic Classification of the Complexity of Nonfiction Texts in Portuguese for Early School Years
• Improving Question-Answering for Portuguese Using Triples Extracted from Corpora
• Applying Lexical-Conceptual Knowledge for Multilingual Multi-Document Summarization
• Domain-Specific Hybrid Machine Translation from English to Portuguese
• Analysis of Temporal Adverbial Phrases for Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation
• Determining the Level of Clients? Dissatisfaction from Their Commentaries
• Comparing Approaches for Subjectivity Classification: a Study on Portuguese Tweets
• TOPIE: An Open-source Opinion Mining Pipeline to Analyze Consumers' Sentiment in Brazilian Portuguese
• Evaluating Progression of Alzheimer?s Disease by Regression and Classification Methods in a Narrative Language Test in Portuguese
• A Comparative Evaluation of QA Systems over List Questions
• Characterizing Opinion Mining: A Systematic Mapping Study of the Portuguese Language
• Finding Compositional Rules for Determining the Semantic Orientation of Phrases
• Sentiment Analysis for Brazilian Portuguese over a Skewed Class Corpora
• Semantic Relation Extraction. Resources, Tools and Strategies
• Extracting and Mining Open Relations from Portuguese Text
• Towards Key Phrase Assignment for Texts in Portuguese Language
• Entity Linking with Distributional Semantics
• Syntax Deep Explorer
• Automatic Semantic Role Labeling on Non-revised Syntactic Trees of Journalistic Texts
• Improving Coreference Resolution with Semantic Knowledge
• Improving POS Tagging across Portuguese Variants with Word Embeddings
• Joining Forces for Multiword Expression Identification
• A Construction Grammar Approach for Pronominal Clitics in European Portuguese
• Investigating Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence Compression in Different Application Contexts for Portuguese
• A Model for Textual Entailment Based on Linguistic Rules
• Word Embeddings Resources for the Portuguese Language
• Making a Virtue of Necessity: A Verb Lexicon
• CONTO. PT: Groundwork for the Automatic Creation of a Fuzzy Portuguese Wordnet
• Lexical Semantics Annotation for Enriched Portuguese Corpora
• Crawling by Readability Level
• Towards a Statistical-enriched Corpus Containing Portuguese Collocations in Use: Reviewing Possible Extraction Tools
• The Portuguese B2SG: A Semantic Test for Distributional Thesaurus
• Automatic Generation of Internet Memes from Portuguese News Titles
• FrameNet-Based Automatic Suggestion of Translation Equivalents
• Building a Question-Answering Corpus Using Social Media and News Articles
• Evaluating Phonetic Spellers for User-generated Content in Brazilian Portuguese
• An Automatic Phonetic Aligner for Brazilian Portuguese with a Praat Interface
• Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children's Reading Aloud Performance.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016, held in Tomar, Portugal, in July 2016. The 23 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: language applications, language processing, and language resources.